{"id":88505,"date":"2021-10-08T07:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=88505"},"modified":"2021-10-08T07:46:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:46:26","slug":"los-angeles-county-sheriff-refuses-to-enforce-vaccine-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=88505","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County Sheriff Refuses To Enforce Vaccine Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Paul Joseph Watson via
\nSummit News<\/p>\n

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has refused to enforce a local vaccine mandate, saying he would risk losing up to 10 per cent of his workforce if he did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After his department\u2019s budget was cut by $145.5 million in June 2020, partly as a result of the \u2018defund the police\u2019 movement, Villanueva says he already faces losing hundreds of officers.<\/p>\n

Enforcing COVID vaccine mandates would further cripple the force at a time when homicides have surged 31 per cent in the first six months of 2021 compared to last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is like the worst of two worlds right here, so we have to pick and choose,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0said Villanueva, adding that he would\u00a0lose 5-10 per cent of his staff \u201covernight\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>if he enacted the Los Angeles City Council\u2019s mandate, which was passed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n